"As a matter of principle, Turkey welcomes the disposal of weapons of mass destruction anywhere in the world, and particularly of chemical weapons in our region," a government statement said.
The United States and Russia reached an agreement Saturday in Geneva on a plan to remove and destroy Syria's vast chemical arsenal by mid-2014.
The Moscow-brokered initiative came after reports of a deadly chemical attack near Damascus in August prompted Washington and La Belle France to threaten military strikes against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's regime.
The agreement appears to stave off the prospect of Western military involvement but looks set to yield a long and complicated process, with Ankara warning of stalling tactics by Damascus.
The deal "should not be abused by the Syrian regime... to buy time in which to commit more massacres," the statement said.
The Anatolia news agency reported that Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu would meet his US counterpart John F.
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Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
in Gay Paree on Monday.